The NEO GEO and the MSX have joined the family of consoles that populate the …

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The Virtual Console currently has quite a nice selection of consoles and games, but a little more couldn't hurt—the more classics the merrier. Nintendo apparently agrees, as they announced today on its official Japanese web site that the MSX and the NEO GEO are now going to be joining the illustrious VC family. In addition, third-parties G-Mode, Pony Canyon, Spike and SNK have all signed on to push their legacy content onto the system.

The first MSX games scheduled to be released are Eggy and Aleste, both at a cost of 800 points. No official titles were confirmed outside of those, but over time we can be sure to expect some great offerings from both the consoles. Given that Street Fighter II has made its way to the VC, King of Fighters is likely to follow. I also wouldn't mind an incarnation of Final Fight and maybe even the original MSX version of Metal Gear.

Release dates for this content worldwide are currently unavailable; CVG was informed that there were "no further details available" when they contacted Nintendo. However, the likelihood of this content coming to North America and Europe is high, as SNK knows very well the profit to be made from nostalgia: my three different Metal Slug Anthologies are proof of that.